Release workflow prototype

.github/actions/build-debian-package/action.yml

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+name: "Build Debian Package"
+description: "Builds a Debian source package using a Docker image"
+inputs:
+  ice_version:
+    description: "The ICE version to build"
+    required: true
+  deb_build_options:
+    description: "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS for the build"
+    required: false
+    default: ""
+  os:
+    description: "The target OS (e.g., ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-24.04-arm)"
+    required: true
+  dockerfile_path:
+    description: "Path to the Dockerfile"
+    required: true
+
+runs:
+  using: "composite"
+  steps:
+    - name: Check out repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+    - name: Build Docker Image
+      run: docker build -f ${{ inputs.dockerfile_path }} -t ${{ inputs.docker_image }} .
+      shell: bash
+
+    - name: Run Package Build with Mounted Source
+      run: |
+        mkdir -p output
+        docker run --rm \
+          -v $PWD/ice:/workspace/ice \
+          -v $PWD/output:/workspace/build \
+          -e ICE_VERSION=${{ inputs.ice_version }} \
+          -e DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="${{ inputs.deb_build_options }}" \
+          ice-debian-package-builder
+      shell: bash
+
+    - name: Upload Artifacts
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: debian-packages-${{ inputs.os }}
+        path: output/

.github/workflows/release.yml

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+name: "Release ICE Debian Packages"
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      ice_version:
+        description: "The ICE version to build"
+        required: true
+        default: "3.8.0~alpha0"
+      deb_build_options:
+        description: "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS for the build"
+        required: false
+        default: "nocheck parallel=4"
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: "Build for ${{ matrix.os }}"
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - os: ubuntu-24.04
+            runner: ubuntu-24.04
+            dockerfile_path: ice/packaging/dpkg/ubuntu-24.04/Dockerfile
+
+          - os: ubuntu-24.04-arm64
+            runner: ubuntu-24.04-arm64
+            dockerfile_path: ice/packaging/dpkg/ubuntu-24.04-arm/Dockerfile
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Call Build Debian Package Action
+        uses: ./.github/actions/build-debian-package
+        with:
+          ice_version: ${{ inputs.ice_version }}
+          deb_build_options: ${{ inputs.deb_build_options }}
+          os: ${{ matrix.os }}
+          dockerfile_path: ${{ matrix.dockerfile_path }}

packaging/dpkg/build-package.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+set -eux  # Exit on error, print commands
+
+# Ensure ICE_VERSION is set
+if [ -z "$ICE_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "Error: ICE_VERSION is not set!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Set working directory
+cd /workspace
+
+# Generate the upstream tarball
+echo "Creating tarball for ICE_VERSION=$ICE_VERSION"
+tar -czf zeroc-ice_${ICE_VERSION}.orig.tar.gz --exclude=debian -C /workspace/ice .
+
+# Create build directory and unpack
+mkdir -p build
+cd build
+tar xzf ../zeroc-ice_${ICE_VERSION}.orig.tar.gz
+
+# Copy Debian packaging files and build
+cp -rfv ../ice/packaging/dpkg/debian .
+dpkg-buildpackage -S
+dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us

packaging/dpkg/debian/.gitignore

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+*.debhelper
+*.log
+*.substvars
+tmp/*
+
+.gradle/*
+.mh/*
+debhelper-build-stamp
+files
+libzeroc-ice-java/*
+libzeroc-ice-dev/*
+libzeroc-ice3.7-java/*
+libzeroc-ice3.7/*
+libzeroc-icestorm3.7/*
+php-zeroc-ice/*
+python-zeroc-ice/*
+python3-zeroc-ice/*
+zeroc-glacier2/*
+zeroc-ice-all-dev/*
+zeroc-ice-all-runtime/*
+zeroc-ice-compilers/*
+zeroc-ice-slice/*
+zeroc-ice-utils-java/*
+zeroc-ice-utils/*
+zeroc-icebridge/*
+zeroc-icebox/*
+zeroc-icegrid/*
+zeroc-icegridgui/*
+zeroc-icepatch2/*
+

packaging/dpkg/debian/BuildInstructions.md

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+# Building DEB Packages
+
+This document describes how to create source and binary DEB packages for Ice as
+a regular (non-root) user on your Debian or Ubuntu Linux system.
+
+## Setup the packaging software
+
+First we'll install all the tools needed to build the Ice packages on your Ubuntu
+system:
+
+    $ sudo apt-get install packaging-dev git-buildpackage
+
+## Checkout Ice source
+
+    $ git clone [email protected]:zeroc-ice/ice-debian-packaging
+    $ git checkout -b upstream --track origin/upstream
+    $ git checkout master
+
+## Install Ice third-party dependencies
+
+Now we will install the necessary third-party packages from the system Software
+repository.
+
+    $ sudo mk-build-deps --install ice-debian-packaging/debian/control
+
+## Building the Ice packages
+
+
+    $ cd ice-debian-packaging
+    $ gbp buildpackage
+
+## Applying a patch
+
+Refer to the [Debian documentation][1] for information on incorporating patches
+into the build.
+
+[1]: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#patches

packaging/dpkg/debian/README

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+======================================================================
+The Internet Communications Engine
+======================================================================
+
+Ice is a comprehensive RPC framework that helps you build distributed
+applications with minimal effort using familiar object-oriented idioms.
+Ice handles all interactions with low-level network programming
+interfaces so that you can focus your efforts on your application logic.
+When using Ice, there is no need to worry about details such as opening
+network connections, serializing and deserializing data for network
+transmission, or retrying failed connection attempts (just to name a
+few things).
+
+Feature highlights:
+
+- Efficient, high-performance binary protocol
+- Supports a wide range of programming languages and platforms
+- Easy to use and type-safe API, with your own interfaces and types
+  defined in a programming language neutral IDL, Slice
+- Supports secure, encrypted communications by taking advantage of
+  your platform's native SSL/TLS stack
+- Familiar object-oriented programming model, with the ability to
+  transmit proxies (references to remote objects) to remote applications
+- Supports synchronous and asynchronous calls, for both client-side
+  invocations and server-side dispatches
+- Automatic discovery of remote objects through UDP multicast
+- Comes with a number of optional services:
+   - IceGrid, the nerve-center of any large-scale application, with
+     support for server deployment, replication, monitoring,
+     load-balancing and more
+   - IceStorm, a lightweight topic-based pub-sub service
+   - Freeze, an embedded, transactional database for Ice datatypes
+   - Glacier2, a sysadmin-friendly solution for routing Ice
+     communications through firewalls
+   - IcePatch2, an efficient software distribution and patching service
+
+
+Getting Started with Ice on Linux
+---------------------------------
+
+Please visit the 'Using the Linux Binary Distributions' section in the
+Ice 3.7.10 release notes:
+
+https://doc.zeroc.com/rel/ice-releases/ice-3-7/ice-3-7-10-release-notes
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+The full documentation for Ice is available online:
+
+https://doc.zeroc.com/ice/3.7/
+
+Source Code
+------------
+
+The source code for Ice 3.7.10 is on GitHub:
+
+https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/releases/tag/v3.7.10